Ruby on Rails

ok, I added this piece of code...

  if @remaining == 1
# put some conditions around this @remaining == 0?
  Product.update(params[:product_id], :funded => true)
  Cart.where(:product_id => params[:product_id]).update_all(:processing => true)
  #
  end

in my add to cart method, where @remaining was defined in my show section.  It's not running in this cart method when the condition is met.

I can try outputting the value, and see what I get.


On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 11:15:20 AM UTC-5, tamouse wrote:

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:07 AM Joe Guerra <JGu...@jginfosys.com> wrote:

In my show method for my products controller I've got a variable that track qty ( @remaining ).

Can I access this variable from another method within the same controller?

Joe,

You *can* as it is an *instance variable*, but it will only be available for that instance of the controller (i.e., a single request). If you're calling other methods during that show request, the instance variable will be available. If you want to access it from another method that responds to a different request, it won't be set. You can also use this instance variable in any views resulting from the show method.

I hope this was clear enough...

Tamara